Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Review for Team Realtree Outdoor Energy--White Buck

CAFFEINE
CONTENT

Nowhere
to be found. I’m almost tempted to
take a sample, throw it into the spectrophotometer up at the biology department,
and find it that way. But then
again, Team Realtree might sue me if I attempted to publish the caffeine
content, so probably not the best idea.

EASE
IN ACQUISITION—2

By
and large, Team Realtree Outdoor Energy—White Buck is pretty scarce; only a
handful of the outdoorsman’s stores where I frequent carry it. Good thing is that if you can find one
you can find ‘em all, which makes satiating one’s curiosity for the line/filling
vacancies in one’s collection somewhat easier.

APPEARANCE/PRESENTATION—9

Well,
there’s not a white buck to be found anywhere on the bottle, but the snowy
woodland it portrays is still nice to look upon, and is packaged in a nice,
thick aluminum bottle, for which I’m always willing to grant an extra point or
two.

TASTE—6

White
Buck is meant to be a Red Bull clone, but to be truthful it isn’t an especially
good one. It has the same
combination of flavors as Red Bull or Monster Energy or any of the others,
though more emphasis is placed on one of those flavors more than the others,
resulting in the drink with poor balance and an unpleasant taste
reminiscent of too-sweet white grape juice. I don’t mind different takes on a familiar formula, which
sometimes works (as in the case of Monster Energy—Assault) but in this case, it
doesn’t.

KICK
(INTENSITY) —8

It’s
a little slow getting started, but once it finally started working, I was
actually impressed. I’ve kind of
figured out a way to control the jitters such that they aren’t as quick to
manifest themselves, but in this case I found it hard to help myself—even my
wife seemed to notice and raise an eyebrow at my excessive chattiness.

KICK
(DURATION) —8

White
Buck continued to perform well quite consistently throughout the
afternoon. There was a
semi-gradual tapering off of effectiveness after 3½ hours or so, after which
there was no crash, though a nice nap came with relative ease.

THE
DRINK OVERALL—7.33

I’m
a bit torn in my final assessment.
On one hand I’ll make no claims for the flavor, but at the same time I
found the kick to be commendable, and for that the drink does deserve at least
some recognition. I’ll call it a
toss-up, and leave the decision up to the reader.